The sun rising behind Flores, the most western European land soon to be our landfall.

We could not catch fish with our lures, but the girls knew what to do with them

I know this is not a great photo. Everyone, but Anouck and I, is asleep for this sunrise. As I take the photo dolphins are visiting and we can hear their breathing next to the boat. The sunrise gave us a ray of sun, but an hour later it was all clouds again.

After days of rain and clouds a promising sunset. The sun did come out the next day.

A whale shows us it's baleens. That day we saw orcas and loads of dolphins.

Land still exists. . .

And this is what it looks like

This is what may happen when you convince your spouse to go sailing across an ocean

Celine stayed up all night waiting for land. She gives us a tired smile.

They might not have seen "the light" but they have seen land. Matthew and Anouck.

Our first Azores anchorage. The Azores have only three all weather anchorages. Flores is not one of them. The wind shifted N and NE and within an hour the anchorage became very uncomfortable. It was OK for us in a cat but the monohulls were dancing. Another 20º to the wind and the anchorage would have been untenable. We left at 0600 the next day and went to Horta, the best anchorage in the Azores. While the Flores anchorage is poor with also poor holding the island is very beautiful and worth the stop.